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Upgrade SD card in A600GS
« on: March 28, 2025, 07:36:35 PM »
Hi All,

I want to upgrade the sd card to 128gb from the stock 64gb. Is there a way to expand the file system on a restored image to access the full 128gb?

 

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Re: Upgrade SD card in A600GS
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2025, 07:59:34 PM »
Hi

Backup the card using the Backup & Restore function.  Contact us and we will send the image for you to write to the larger 128GB card.  You can then restore your software from the original card on the new card.
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Re: Upgrade SD card in A600GS
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2025, 01:27:48 AM »
Hey Matthew,

Will we be able to just buy the 128gig card ready to go from amigaKit?

I too wish to get more space!
 

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Re: Upgrade SD card in A600GS
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2025, 09:56:12 AM »
On Linux:

1.) Check on which node your SD-card gets mounted on your Linux machine. You can do that via sudo dmesg -w and then inserting SD card or by using e.g. 'Disks' (gnome-disks) or by using any other tool where your disks are listed. My USB card readers gets /dev/sdd, so I need to use /dev/sdd for the following commands.

2.) Backup disk to a file:
 # sudo dd_rescue /dev/sdX ~/Backup/A600GS.img

3.) Write backup-image to new card:
 # sudo dd_rescue ~/Backup/A600GS.img /dev/sdX

4.) Start 'gparted', select /dev/sdX. Enlarge your data partition to desired size.

For the used directories and filenames you can choose whatever you like. ~/ stands for my home directory, the image file A600GS.img will be placed in the Backup directory lying in my home folder, As such I use ~/Backup/A600GS.img for the complete path.

   or

You can use disk/partition cloning tools like https://clonezilla.org/ if you don't like typing CLI commands. But be aware the Clonezilla interface is text-based too.  ;)
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Re: Upgrade SD card in A600GS
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2025, 12:23:57 PM »
Is there a way to expand the file system on a restored image to access the full 128gb?

It does this automatically on first boot with new card.
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Re: Upgrade SD card in A600GS
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2025, 12:34:21 PM »
It does this automatically on first boot with new card.

With a new image. A working image backed up to a new card won't resize. It's planned to maybe add this but, the mechanism needs fine tuning.

If you are confident with linux the approach described by ernsteiswuerfel will work in the mean time.
 

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Re: Upgrade SD card in A600GS
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2025, 04:26:49 PM »
I've managed to upgrade from 64GB to 256GB and 512GB using this method:
1. Win32 Disk Imager Read 64GB card then insert larger one and Write the image on it
2. I was not able to resize the partition in windows but in linux using GParted.

Works perfectly without using terminal in linux
 

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Re: Upgrade SD card in A600GS
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2025, 05:49:53 PM »
I don’t suppose there would be a way to have a repository somewhere for registered users to download 128gb/256gb etc.. images? Not sure if this might be a feature request or not, so sorry if that is the case….  :-[
 

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Re: Upgrade SD card in A600GS
« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2025, 08:56:13 PM »
You need to contact support and then they will send you the link for larger images. I was offered one but did it myself before that
 
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Re: Upgrade SD card in A600GS
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2025, 08:54:56 AM »
Its all the same image. It should auto resize by itself. However sometimes, its needs to be triggered manually.
I upgraded mine to a larger faster card and it automatically resized. However others have said, theirs did not.
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Re: Upgrade SD card in A600GS
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2025, 10:05:56 AM »
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Its all the same image. It should auto resize by itself. However sometimes, its needs to be triggered manually.
I upgraded mine to a larger faster card and it automatically resized. However others have said, theirs did not.

This is because it only resizes on first boot.

That latest A600GS menu update will check the partition size verses media size and offer the option to resize on next boot if more than 10% free space is found.
 

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Re: Upgrade SD card in A600GS
« Reply #11 on: April 28, 2025, 04:54:05 PM »
Today I tried again to copy original 64GB imag to 256gb card. It didn't automatically resize but under "System" there was an option (button) to resize existing partition ad reboot A600GS :)

Awesome job! 
 

Offline balrog74

Re: Upgrade SD card in A600GS
« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2025, 10:55:18 PM »
Are there any spec limitations around the microSD used (or the A600GS for that matter)? 
 

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Re: Upgrade SD card in A600GS
« Reply #13 on: April 28, 2025, 11:24:04 PM »
Specs from the default 64GB card that goes with A600GS are SDXC U1/V10/A1. I guess anything at least as good as default is ok. I replaced it with Verbatim 256GB SDXC U3/V30/A2 and it works so good.
 
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Re: Upgrade SD card in A600GS
« Reply #14 on: April 28, 2025, 11:24:44 PM »
Are there any spec limitations around the microSD used (or the A600GS for that matter)?

The Orange Pi Zero 3 has an official limit of 256GB but since it´s using SDXC you may get lucky (and poor) trying up to 2TB  ???

But even me as a self-announced hardcore Amiga-User will never get anything close to that size with Amiga Software itself  ;D